Fixing up your home to sell

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Hi how do you get your home market ready? We live in a small 2 bedroom terraced property/starter home, we would like to move somewhere with an 3rd bedroom and garden as we now have 2 DD.

However I'm aware our house could do with a face-lift. The kitchen and bathroom are older, the rooms could be freshened up with paint and one of the bedrooms needs a new carpet.
We have recently put new flooring downstairs, new front door, new backyard gate. Have a wood stove, and boiler is only a few years old, planning to repaint the front of the house in spring.

Our budget is small around 4k so was wondering what your priorities would be to make a home sell. property worth around 100k

YABU - don't spend money getting the house market ready

YANBU- spend money fixing it up to sell.

I wouldn't do anything. Unless there is something really bad, not just tired.

Paint the kitchen cabinet doors, or replace the doors (keeping the cabinets).
Have a big clear out or find some storage solutions so that the place doesn't look small/cluttered.
I wouldn't spend much as likely you won't recoup the spend

Just wondering if you have spoken to any local estate agents yet? When moving a few years ago we found that the ones local to us were very clued up about what would or wouldn’t be a good idea to spend, I know EAs get a bad press but they really were helpful in that respect. Good luck with the sale!

Paint can make a huge and cheap difference and de clutter massively, even if you don't get rid of stuff just box stuff up and put it in the loft. De personalise it a bit and make it generic, minimalist and tidy. Make the most of the space.

I believe when selling a house you’re selling a ‘feeling’. I wouldn’t spend loads but I’d make it nice enough, cosy and homely. I’d declutter and freshen up paint work.

If I had the money, I’d replace either the kitchen or bathroom (whichever is worse), and freshen up the other, paint the cupboards and add a little table lamp or similar to make it homely.

While you might not get back everything you spend, you are likely to make your house far more saleable, in a time sensitive competitive market where ‘newly listed’ houses on Rightmove get the most attention and anything past the two week ‘sweet spot’ have to be really hunted out. And your home being ‘sold’ will also give you the best bargaining tool when offering on your next home.

Honestly I wouldn't bother installing a new kitchen or anything like that.
You'll want to do it as cheaply as you can (understandably!) but potential buyers would probably rather choose it themselves.
When we were looking I was very happy if the kitchen needed a refit!
Better than a new one that I didn't like and dh would fight me on replacing a perfectly sound kitchen.
Reflect it in the price but just make sure it's tidy/homely and welcoming.

I put mine up for sale, I did some major repairs that had to be done, apart from that just a bit of fresh paint where needed. Cleaned out the clutter, made every room look like a useable space. Mowed the grass..yawn
& I painted the front door step 😀

Declutter, and if bedrooms need repainting to freshen them up I'd do that. A good clean but I wouldn't spend any more like buying a new CV carpet as it might not be to a buyers taste.

Agreed. When we bought our house it was the perfect location for us and not much comes up in our area with 4 bedrooms and large garden so we bought it. I was a bit disappointed because I loved the house except for the expensive kitchen that had only been fitted for about a year but was not to my taste at all. I had to live with it for about 5 years before we could afford to change it. I sold it second hand for a decent price as in good content but not for me.